Gravity Batteries: This New Technology Could Change Everything
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024
- Gravity Batteries: This New Technology Could Change Everything
We use fossil fuels for energy because they pack a lot of punch in a very compact form. Imagine trying to push your heavy car a kilometer (3280 ft.) to the gas station, when the same task can be accomplished with just 100ml, less than half a cup, of gasoline. Unfortunately gas-powered cars release a lot of CO2 in that process.
Similarly, in a power plant burning Natural Gas (one of the cleanest burning fuels), it still releases 407 kg (898 lb) of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for every megawatt-hour. Petroleum sources and coal are 234% and 246% worse, respectively.
Switching to sustainable, environmentally-friendly sources like wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal could eliminate all that. With portable batteries improving daily, our society is moving towards a more ubiquitous electrical future.
Storing power from the sun and wind is problematic. Battery technology is advancing, of course, but those batteries wear out and need to be recycled and replaced. Not only is recycling costly, but it’s difficult as well, and uses a lot of energy and generates more CO2 to be released into the atmosphere. There is a much better way…
Gravity Batteries: This New Technology Could Change Everything
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I do not believe the efficiency estimate. Build a demo model!
Thunderfoot already busted this quite handily. Its a major scam. It doesn't actually make any sense. And it doesn't account for physics in many ways.
Now, we just need to connect all the Peleton Devices to store their combined kinetic input...
This technology comes up every three or so years, but the fact of the matter is we already do something like this far cheaper and far more efficiently with water. We pump it to the top of a reservoir, and then let it flow down.
Or we don't pump anything at all. We build dams and harness the power of the sun directly without fancy windmills. China is doing this all over their country. We keep electing boobs who won't do this because the oil industry pays for their campaigns.
First we have to know the difference in costs between the infrastructures we have now in place compared to the cost in natural resources to make, manufacture and sustain the infrastructures that will be needed to see which one is cheaper and less abusive to the planet.
We must take into consideration all options.
“New” is not always “better” and remember, there are always better alternatives we have not tried because we are fighting established big business who would not want it because there would be less money for them with their already established manufacturing.
Why does this stupid ide refuse to die? Gravity batteries have existed for over a century and are widely used, but not in this form. This form of gravity battery is just taking a good idea and turning it into a bad one. It takes the concept of the well established type of gravity battery, pumped hydro, where you just need to move water with a pump/turbine and does the stupidest thing replacing the easily moved water with large numbers of huge concrete blocks that have to be lifted and lowered and shifted around with cranes.
Plenty of ocean water along cliffs , use excess solar during the day and pump enough ocean water up to huge tanks or a man made lake so turbines continually produce 60cycle power 24 /7
Wouldn’t that be considered free energy after it’s built ??
Too bad government morons are too stupid , that 30 trillion thrown in the trash could have actually made something useful like desalination plants along California coast
Low maintenance and easy to maintain??!?!?! With literally HUNDREDS of pulleys, roller carts, cam/clamps and precise positioning requirements? Heck, it'd take a five man crew probably 8 hours just to lubricate the cables, pulleys, winches and turning gantries. "easy to maintain" my foot. That's probably just one of the lies in this pipe-dream.
So, 40 man-hours, is your estimate to maintain this? How often? And what is your estimate on what it takes to maintain other large energy generation and/or storage systems?
Using weights is not a new thing. They've been used to power large clocks for hundreds of years.
I'm surprised a pilot battery hasn't been built as there are so few places to build dams which are the only other relatively benign battery we currently have.
they have them operating already
So simple and when it comes to the end of its life, it's all recyclable, its a no-brainer to me that it will become part of our renewable energy supply
They must put more research into using the power of explosions, TNT, etc to harness energy, like using it to compress a huge massive spring & once it's compressed the energy can be regained by slowly unwinding the spring - just like those toys work.
They have extensive research on the band AC/DC; relating to their smash hit TNT which already makes it’s own renewable energy source for the entire planet.
This technology is hard to replicate…
You do realize that plants need C02, and we need the oxygen that plants transpire when they take up C02, right?
Gravity batteries seem more like a problem than a solution. Based on friction it would take more energy to raise the blocks than they would generate when being lowered, or has this problem been solved. This is a big flaw as without it there is no net energy gain????
Friction? You're not very good at physics, are you? There is no friction in _Wingardium Leviosa._ 😁
I agree, this model works only if you assume that peak energy is zero-cost zero-revenue waste energy, which of course it isn't. All gravity systems also require lots of powerful mechanical devices with significant failure rates and maintenance costs, especially compared to most batteries. A big rocky cylinder might generate mini earthquakes like fracking does in some places, or digging a salt mine in others, plus there is no way you can keep it in place with clamps or something, so it will always be falling down continuously, except when you'll be using renewable energy during low demand to power several hundreds of motors to pull it up.
Storing spare energy as heat has different issues but probably less than gravity on the whole, but the real solution is to reduce energy storage needs to the bare minimum, with a smart grid and a mix of renewable energy sources, including tidal, that will ensure that there is always some energy produced somewhere and that there is a way to transport that extra energy to places where it's temporarily missing and needed.
It's also likely that we don't have today all the techs for energy production, transformation and storage that we'll actually be using on a large industrial scale by the end of the century.
@@Chimel31 Anything mechanical with wheels and pulleys will have friction. This is why we grease areas and oil others. Something has to life these blocks and it is mechanical hoists ran by motors, not the electrical that actually lifts anything.
@@Healitnow OK, so not a fan of Harry Potter or humor, are we?
@@Chimel31 😃 good one.
@@Healitnow "...it is mechanical hoists ran by motors, not the electrical that actually lifts anything"
Electrical energy powers the motors.
I doubt that it could be done with anything close to ten per cent efficiency.
So many potential efficiency losses in the system that I can’t see being overcome plus location issues.
"I doubt that it could be done with anything close to ten per cent efficiency."
And you researched this for 16 minutes, in order to give your expert opinion?
Change everything? Dont they do this with water in mountain lakes I'd imagine it cost less for water too
The video literally addresses that.
@@melmartinez7002 No it doesn’t. Water is very cheap, concrete not so much. Complex crane system is not low maintenance. What about wind? The crane system would have to handle that. And where will we get the materials to produce those blocks? They are constantly being lifted and placed. Not to mention the environmental impact of producing it. Now we have more problems than it solves. Nothing revolutionary.
its just a jerkoff attempt at getting views without saying anything new
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Green energy typically creates more co2 than it saves like hydraulic is the worst
Yes, what about an electric PLANE !!! Smarty pants!!!
Corrosion is really not gonna be your friend with the tower stacker grav battery. I say singular bulwark right triangle weight with a single hinged side attached to the ground, using either hydraulics or rachet levers. The ratchet lever system will double the form factor but will operate at temperature extremes the hydraulic system might not.
Isn't there also a simple contraption that uses sand bags on ropes and pulleys to run a generator that outputs a small amount of electricity for lighting in a small home?
We hear every day that renewables based electricity is not as reliable as fossil fueled electricity.
That's why leading renewable energy generation countries like Norway, Denmark, Portugal with 55 to 98% of electricity produced by renewables have so bad and unreliable electricity grids while the U.S. with only 12% renewable electricity has the world's most reliable electricity grid.
Oh, wait, wasn't it actually the other way around? Now I'm confused 🤔
"....Beam it down by Microwave...' = Death ray WMD.
they should use trash instead of concrete, itˋs a win-win 👌😊
Un-needed electricity? Where does the electricity used to lift gravity battery weights come from?
Hi ...At night when everybody is asleep...no factories etc working....then the conventional power generating plants are still generating power which is not being used....so for instance....at night that power can then be used to pump water to a higher level dam, for instance...and then during the next day the water is released to turn a turbine as it flows back down to the lower level dam....thus supplementing the demand for higher energy usage during the day....such a system is being used in the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa...Greetings from me( in Cape Town,South Africa) to you,wherever you may be in the world😁 (Electricity generating plants can not be turned off at night,but must be kept going so as to maintain a Base-Load Capacity....so presto....run a bit above the aforementioned and get the water pumped up to the higher level dam)
In stead of the concrete blocks serving as a gravity battery, water is serving as the gravity battery.....Gravity isn't fussy...F= m.a. kg./m/s*2
@@gerhardvanderpoll7378 water...as do concrete blocks needs to be moved (pumped) from low to high. That requires electricity. Electricity the gravity battery doesn't have to pump it uphill without aid from the grid.
To store 1KWH would require lifting a 3673kg weight 100m or 10(.1) 4680 Tesla cells. This is the stupidest idea I have ever seen. Engineers should know better.
Force of gravity of per kilogram = 9.8N/1KG. 1KWh = 1000W x 3600 seconds/hour = 3600000 Joules. = 3.6MJ. 3.6MJ/(9.8N/KG x 100m) = 3673kg.
Tesla 4680 cell has a capacity of 99WH/cell. 1000WH/99WH = 10.1 cells.
Just watch out for Skynet.
7 mins of video before actually getting to the title of the video. Damn, dudes, feel like I'm watching a V-shred video.
lets coastel town go under water so we can develops new city
Technologies our only hope and our deadliest foe. Certainly, it deserves very careful thought.
the one thing you didn't explain in this video was HOW DO GRAVITY BATTERIES WORK!!!
may be you can make another video on just that... thanks
weight pulls rope, rope turns pulley, pully turns motor/generator. When you have excess power you use it to hoist the weights back up, storing potential kinetic energy. Another version is pumping water into a ground level reservoir during the day and letting it drain into an underground reservoir at night, powering hydro plant
@@jeffsmith9384 but to call them gravity batteries is a misnomer, the fact is that the batteries do not generate electricity!!! and I have seen said principle to generate power in Africa. but to call them gravity batteries is NOT CORRECT!!!
and I don't care what sun you are circling, batteries don't generate, instead they store it!
Gravity storage without using water is ridiculous
The energy to extract, process, transport and set up the infrastructure for gravity battery systems must be accounted for. They are by necessity large masses and the resources to make the motors to move the masses to store the gravitational potential energy must also be accounted for. Locating them will be a problem because of their large size. Locating far from urban areas means a lot less efficient system due to losses in the network. At least they are quieter than windmill infrastructure.
It’s COLOMBIA, not COLUMBIA
It's not that it's a bad idea, but the costs to produce that much concrete (power, water ...) Can we please just go nuclear!? Modern nuclear is amazing!
I want the DIY plans!
Wouldn't it take the same amount of energy to lift it up as it generates with you drop it?
Because of efficiency issues it takes more to lift then what is put out,this would be good for storing solar energy for night use though
There are losses in any energy storage system. You have missed the point - store the energy when there is an excess (or when it is cheap), and then release the energy when it is expensive or when the energy generation apparatus can't meet demand.
What goes into developing and manufacturing all of these renewables?
Ah, fossil fuels. Good old oil and gas is the foundation of everything. Why not keep it simple instead of engineering even more ways to use fossil fuels less effectively. 🤦🏼♂️
very deceptive title
It's a good idea and honestly, there needs to be a radical change in this country. Pushing these wealthy dinosaurs aside. Bringing in independent investors to create a new future. While the old thinking slowly contorts, writhers up and dies, with all of its arcadic energy hogs. Let's just hope they don't drag down half the planet in the mean time.
Good video until, we need to reach net zero emissions by so and so.... and I have 18 solar panels on my roof....
Really? "Columbia"...it's Colombia please do the homework
Just check Thunderf00t's video about this "amaizing" tech :))))
Dont think so
Safire project!
Video lost all credibility when they said a mile was 3280 feet.
You mean right at the beginning when he actually said "pushing your car a KILOMETER (3280FT)"?
@@anthonypelchat And now Ive lost all credibility....
@@DreamCatchr lol. I was going to say that, but decided to wait as it could have been elsewhere in the video.
I wanted to hear about the subject in the topic and not a 7th grade summary of all the other energy sources....wasted so much time I even wrote a comment
Nuclear the cleanest best
This is complete nonsense. There is nothing clean about radioactive waste, not to mention the 2,000,000,000 gallons of water needed per day to cool each tower.
#Scam
Wasn't this stupid idea debunked recently? And we already have gravity batteries based on water.
Energy vault
Another thing not addressed in this video is how this works in a positive way for transportation, or do we continue to turn a blind eye to the severe environmental impacts and what is essentially slave labor in lithium mining? Humans always make at least two worse problems in the effort of solving one problem.
Not to mention some project all the lithium will be used up by 2040.
couldn't we just convert our skyscrapers to have these on all four corners?
Good idea! But would only provide a few minutes of energy while the 3,000 LB elevator rolls down 500 feet.
Bull S.
15.11 gravity battery